WoRMS taxon details
Staphylaea staphylaea (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 216890
AphiaID: 216890
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Cypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Cypraeidae (Family) > Staphylaea (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Staphylaea Jousseaume, 1884 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cypraea staphylaea Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Verdcourt, B. (1954). The cowries of the East African Coast (Kenya, Tanganyika, Zanzibar and Pemba). Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society 22(4) 96: 129-144, 17 pls. [details] additional source: Lorenz & Hubert (2000). A guide to worldwide cowries. ConchBooks 1-584 page(s): 212-213 [details] additional source: Burgess, C.M. (1985) Cowries of the World. Gordon verhoef, Seacomber Publications, South Africa, Cape Town. XIV + 289 pp. page(s): 232 [details] additional source: Burgess, C.M. (1970). The Living Cowries. AS Barnes and Co, Ltd. Cranbury, New Jersey (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record (from synonym): Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice [details] [view taxon] additional source (from synonym): Branch, G.M. et al. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg., available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=W_2QB8ftLgcC [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Staphylaea staphylaea consobrina (Garrett, 1879) Subspecies Staphylaea staphylaea laevigata (Dautzenberg, 1932) Subspecies Staphylaea staphylaea nolani Lorenz, 1989 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Chagos (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Comores (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] East Coast of South Africa (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Kenya (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mascarene Basin (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Reunion (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Somalia (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] South Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 2 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | ||||||||||
| Note |
Synonymy: Possibly a synonym of Staphylaea limacina <179>. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216890 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Staphylaea staphylaea (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216890 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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